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In a 60 minutes interview, MTG says she's America First not MAGA
In a 2024 article, McKee, Huffmon, Knotts & I examined the factions within Republicanism & find that MAGA hold distinct opinions from America 1st--particularly on Trump & election denial
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In a 2024 article, McKee, Huffmon, Knotts & I examined the factions within Republicanism & find that MAGA hold distinct opinions from America 1st--particularly on Trump & election denial
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#polisky
Intraparty Republican Factionalism as Identity in the Modern American South - Christopher A. Cooper, Scott H. Huffmon, H. Gibbs Knotts, Seth C. McKee, 2024
Party factions are central to our understanding of American politics, but what role do party factions play within the electorate? With an August 2022 survey of ...
journals.sagepub.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
In a 60 minutes interview, MTG says she's America First not MAGA
In a 2024 article, McKee, Huffmon, Knotts & I examined the factions within Republicanism & find that MAGA hold distinct opinions from America 1st--particularly on Trump & election denial
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#polisky
In a 2024 article, McKee, Huffmon, Knotts & I examined the factions within Republicanism & find that MAGA hold distinct opinions from America 1st--particularly on Trump & election denial
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#polisky
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✊The article “Theorizing justice from the margins: Black feminist insights on political (protest) behavior” was recently published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social by Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma. Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
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Theorizing justice from the margins: Black feminist insights on political (protest) behavior
Variations in perceptions of and attitudes towards justice animate how different people decide to engage in politics. In the US, political attitudes typically vary across salient identity markers s...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
✊The article “Theorizing justice from the margins: Black feminist insights on political (protest) behavior” was recently published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social by Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma. Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
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📢 Who protects transgender rights in Congress? Angevine and Mendez Garcia analyze who sponsors gender identity inclusive legislation in the US House and find that LGB, liberal, and minority lawmakers lead efforts to advance equality and inclusion.
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Who protects transgender rights in congress? An analysis of gender identity inclusive policy entrepreneurship
The quality and strength of a democracy can be measured by how minority rights are protected against the interests of the majority. In the US, the rights of transgender people, a numerically small,...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
📢 Who protects transgender rights in Congress? Angevine and Mendez Garcia analyze who sponsors gender identity inclusive legislation in the US House and find that LGB, liberal, and minority lawmakers lead efforts to advance equality and inclusion.
Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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📢 What explains Latinx support for Trump in 2020? Múzquiz and Junn find that differences among Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American voters, shaped by migration history, citizenship, and political incorporation, explain variation in partisan choices.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Latinx for Trump: disaggregating support among voters in 2020
This article analyzes predictors of support for Donald Trump among Latinx in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election to uncover variation within the broader category of Latinx voters. We analyze 2020 C...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
📢 What explains Latinx support for Trump in 2020? Múzquiz and Junn find that differences among Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American voters, shaped by migration history, citizenship, and political incorporation, explain variation in partisan choices.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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📢 How are conservative judges reshaping LGBTQ rights after Bostock? Pierceson finds that while Bostock v. Clayton County expanded protections for transgender plaintiffs, some conservative judges now use Dobbs and past rulings to narrow those rights.
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After Bostock: conservative judges, LGBTQ rights, and the conservative movement
After the groundbreaking LGBTQ rights decision in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020), federal judges across the ideological spectrum used the decision to protect the rights of transgender plaintiffs....
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December 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
📢 How are conservative judges reshaping LGBTQ rights after Bostock? Pierceson finds that while Bostock v. Clayton County expanded protections for transgender plaintiffs, some conservative judges now use Dobbs and past rulings to narrow those rights.
🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Asylum seeker from Texas makes a short return to Mordor. "I suspect most Texans don’t know this, because I certainly didn’t until I got back, but living in Texas turns you into a psychopath. Everything in your daily life puts you in competition with every other person you encounter."
You’re not supposed to live like this
This is a story about Texas.
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November 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Asylum seeker from Texas makes a short return to Mordor. "I suspect most Texans don’t know this, because I certainly didn’t until I got back, but living in Texas turns you into a psychopath. Everything in your daily life puts you in competition with every other person you encounter."
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NEW ISSUE -
Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics - Volume 10 - Issue 3 - November 2025 - https://cup.org/3Wiy2SI
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Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics - Volume 10 - Issue 3 - November 2025 - https://cup.org/3Wiy2SI
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October 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
NEW ISSUE -
Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics - Volume 10 - Issue 3 - November 2025 - https://cup.org/3Wiy2SI
#JREP10
Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics - Volume 10 - Issue 3 - November 2025 - https://cup.org/3Wiy2SI
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Incredible public service. See also Congress Data: github.com/ippsr/congre...
October 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Incredible public service. See also Congress Data: github.com/ippsr/congre...
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👪 @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social recently published the article, “Married with children: do intermarriage and children impact political orientations?” by N. Phan, N. McNeely and E. Vargas. Take a look here 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
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Married with children: do intermarriage and children impact political orientations?
We test the possibility that social contact through interracial marriage impacts racial attitudes. We assume that interracial couples experience intergroup contact that is meaningfully different fr...
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October 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
👪 @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social recently published the article, “Married with children: do intermarriage and children impact political orientations?” by N. Phan, N. McNeely and E. Vargas. Take a look here 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
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“Somebody showed me a TikTok video” is already a bad start and, well, it just all goes downhill from there. Apparently the man in charge of Health and Human Services believes that babies grow inside placentas and … there is so much wrong here, I don’t really even know where to begin.
RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."
October 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“Somebody showed me a TikTok video” is already a bad start and, well, it just all goes downhill from there. Apparently the man in charge of Health and Human Services believes that babies grow inside placentas and … there is so much wrong here, I don’t really even know where to begin.
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services does not know that babies don't grow inside placentas
RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."
October 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The Secretary of Health and Human Services does not know that babies don't grow inside placentas
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📢 Jones tests how LGBTQ groups frame identity—by emphasizing similarity or difference from the dominant majority—and finds no effect on support, perceived effectiveness, or political appeal among LGBTQ and straight cis respondents alike.
🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Emphasizing similarities or differences: framing effects in LGBTQ movement mobilization
Marginalized groups face major challenges in mobilizing the public, including how to frame their own identities. Should groups emphasize how similar they are to the dominant majority? Or can they f...
www.tandfonline.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
📢 Jones tests how LGBTQ groups frame identity—by emphasizing similarity or difference from the dominant majority—and finds no effect on support, perceived effectiveness, or political appeal among LGBTQ and straight cis respondents alike.
🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Banksy Musuem. Madrid
June 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Banksy Musuem. Madrid
Happy to be in Ohlao Portugal! A peaceful and democratic place. My biggest worry today..except for all that...was what fish will I have for dinner. That is no a bad problem.
June 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Happy to be in Ohlao Portugal! A peaceful and democratic place. My biggest worry today..except for all that...was what fish will I have for dinner. That is no a bad problem.
CNN interview with Stephen Miller is painful. He simply runs roughshod over the Pamela Brown every time. When he goes on a tangent rant she needs to firmly state the interview is over. Instead she and her producers are giving him airtime to spew hate and lies. Mainstream media must do better.
May 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
CNN interview with Stephen Miller is painful. He simply runs roughshod over the Pamela Brown every time. When he goes on a tangent rant she needs to firmly state the interview is over. Instead she and her producers are giving him airtime to spew hate and lies. Mainstream media must do better.
hmmm...seems amazon is ahead of the game on tarriffs. Yesterday, Amazon 32 oz Palmetto Farms Grits was $13.49. Bought the same item this morning at the Lowes Grocery store in Greer, SC for $5.49. Seems like Bezos and the like are looking to make even more money off the tarriff fiasco.
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May 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
hmmm...seems amazon is ahead of the game on tarriffs. Yesterday, Amazon 32 oz Palmetto Farms Grits was $13.49. Bought the same item this morning at the Lowes Grocery store in Greer, SC for $5.49. Seems like Bezos and the like are looking to make even more money off the tarriff fiasco.
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Blue states should pass laws requiring that tariffs are itemized and clearly shown in purchase receipts, by the way.
Let people know how much they’re paying extra thanks to Donald Trump and the Republican Congress.
Let people know how much they’re paying extra thanks to Donald Trump and the Republican Congress.
April 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Blue states should pass laws requiring that tariffs are itemized and clearly shown in purchase receipts, by the way.
Let people know how much they’re paying extra thanks to Donald Trump and the Republican Congress.
Let people know how much they’re paying extra thanks to Donald Trump and the Republican Congress.
Can someone in this administration make up their minds? The tariff chaos is whiplash-inducing—shifting messages from Trump, mixed signals from advisors, and a market swinging like a pendulum have investors, small business owners, and the public on edge. The market should be FUN tomorrow!
April 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Can someone in this administration make up their minds? The tariff chaos is whiplash-inducing—shifting messages from Trump, mixed signals from advisors, and a market swinging like a pendulum have investors, small business owners, and the public on edge. The market should be FUN tomorrow!
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Check out my new paper w/ #CandisWattsSmith and #TehamaLopezBunyasi in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social!!
"Feeling good about the ties that bind: Neighborhood quality and affective linked fate among Black Americans"
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"Feeling good about the ties that bind: Neighborhood quality and affective linked fate among Black Americans"
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Feeling good about the ties that bind: neighborhood quality and affective linked fate among Black Americans
Middle-class African Americans are more likely to live in neighborhoods with lower average incomes, more poverty, abandoned and boarded-up homes, single-parent households, and fewer college graduat...
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April 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Check out my new paper w/ #CandisWattsSmith and #TehamaLopezBunyasi in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social!!
"Feeling good about the ties that bind: Neighborhood quality and affective linked fate among Black Americans"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Feeling good about the ties that bind: Neighborhood quality and affective linked fate among Black Americans"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Despicable
Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”
April 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Despicable
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In Memoriam: Renowned Political Scientist and former APSA President, Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr., Passes Away
This obituary is written by Dr. Mary Coleman and John Matthew Holden, with additional contributions from The HistoryMakers website and the APSA. Dr. Matthew Holden Jr., renowned political…
This obituary is written by Dr. Mary Coleman and John Matthew Holden, with additional contributions from The HistoryMakers website and the APSA. Dr. Matthew Holden Jr., renowned political…
In Memoriam: Renowned Political Scientist and former APSA President, Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr., Passes Away
This obituary is written by Dr. Mary Coleman and John Matthew Holden, with additional contributions from The HistoryMakers website and the APSA. Dr. Matthew Holden Jr., renowned political scientist, distinguished educator, and cherished mentor, passed away on January 26, 2025, at the age of 93. A man of profound intellect, unwavering dedication, and boundless curiosity, Dr. Holden’s contributions to the field of political science and his commitment to justice and equity have left an indelible mark on academia and beyond.
politicalsciencenow.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
In Memoriam: Renowned Political Scientist and former APSA President, Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr., Passes Away
This obituary is written by Dr. Mary Coleman and John Matthew Holden, with additional contributions from The HistoryMakers website and the APSA. Dr. Matthew Holden Jr., renowned political…
This obituary is written by Dr. Mary Coleman and John Matthew Holden, with additional contributions from The HistoryMakers website and the APSA. Dr. Matthew Holden Jr., renowned political…
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NEW in @51st.news: House Republicans just voted to defund D.C. police and schools. As part of a spending bill to avert a federal government shutdown, they could force D.C. to slash $1.1 billion out of its budget, and no one understands really why. 51st.news/house-republ...
Dollars and nonsense: House Republicans vote to defund D.C. police and schools
Congress could force D.C. to cut $1.1 billion out of its local budget, but no one really understands why.
51st.news
March 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
NEW in @51st.news: House Republicans just voted to defund D.C. police and schools. As part of a spending bill to avert a federal government shutdown, they could force D.C. to slash $1.1 billion out of its budget, and no one understands really why. 51st.news/house-republ...
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The damage being done to American science, particularly in the area of medical research will cost countless lives and take decades to repair. This is truly a catastrophe.
"The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects, from breast-feeding support efforts in Baltimore to mosquito-net programs in Mozambique."
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
www.wsj.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The damage being done to American science, particularly in the area of medical research will cost countless lives and take decades to repair. This is truly a catastrophe.
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Spent 5 days in munich. 10 eggs cost 2.50 euros. Loaf of.wheat bread cost less than 2 euros. A beer...good beer cost less 2 euros. i could go on and on. Hmmm. I saved money on my vacation.
March 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Spent 5 days in munich. 10 eggs cost 2.50 euros. Loaf of.wheat bread cost less than 2 euros. A beer...good beer cost less 2 euros. i could go on and on. Hmmm. I saved money on my vacation.